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Transforming a Blogger RSS feed into a slideshow

This tip was created by us to solve a challenge that one of our readers left for us on our Resizing your thumbnails in Blogger's Popular Posts widget  post. Initially we decided to make take this…

Transforming Blogger's Popular Posts widget into a slideshow

Why didn't we think of this sooner?!?!? Most blogs on  +Blogger  take advantage of the Popular Posts widget in their blog, and to some extent, most people wish it could look better or do more. Fo…

Setting up a Guest Poster submission form

We've created a number of functionalities using Blogger and Google Docs Forms as a means of creating submission forms for Blogger sites and customizing how they work. Based on a few requests we&#…

Thumbnail and summary including YouTube thumbs

Video bloggers, as well as bloggers that simply have some YouTube videos in their blog posts, have been requesting a version of our Thumbnail and Summary Script that includes the functionality for Y…

First post variation on the thumbnail and summary script

It seems as though we're getting a bit carried away with our thumbnail and summary script ... we've created another one for you! This one is also by request; the desire to have the first pos…

Tip: A grid of post thumbnails for index/listing pages

Our thumbnail and summary script was such a success that people have been asking us for further and further customization based off of it. The most frequent request has been the ability to set just …

Tip: A simple CATCHA for preventing spam through submission forms

Nothing is more annoying than getting spam through your website's submission forms, especially when it looks something like: Name :: cholrdji Email :: cholrdji Location :: cholrdji Feedback :: ma…

Tip: Making index page images link to the post page

This tip mainly applies to blogs that take advantage of jump breaks in their posts as a way to shorten posts on the front page(s) with links to the full post. In cases where you use jump breaks to li…

Hangout on Air: Custom Picasa Album Slideshows in Blogger

How did we manage to present such a potentially complex topic in under 15 minutes?! Yesterday's Hangout on Air discussed using slideshows in your blog/website, the different ways that our company…

Create a custom Picasa slideshow in Blogger

In creating a website within Blogger, one of our first real challenges was developing a way to provide a slideshow within the website that was fully customized to the needs of the design, but also co…

Hangout on Air: Understanding RSS feeds for Blogger

Yesterday's Hangout on Air was a doozy! In under 30 minutes we discussed RSS feeds, the feeds provided by Blogger, how to manipulate them, and how to re-integrate them into your website in new an…

Tip: Using JQuery to process and include Blogger RSS feeds into your site

In our last post we discussed the types of RSS feeds that your Blogger site automatically creates for you, and how to use the URL string to change the types of content returned in the feed. Examples…

Tip: A better automatic thumbnail and summary script for Blogger

When we first started creating custom websites using Blogger, one of the first real script needs that we ran up against was the need for an automatic thumbnail and read more function, one where you c…

Tip: Automatically resize your Blogger post's images

You've been blogging along for a while now, inserting your images into your blog posts and sizing them to fit nicely into the template that you've selected. A few hundred posts later you deci…

Tip: Creating a newspaper layout in Blogger with the first image before the article

A request that often is brought up in Blogger development forums is the desire to break the conventional post/article format of date -> post title -> post body -> post footer and do somethin…
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